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(if enabled). Transporter Peer to Peer supports direct IP
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Question: I keep getting an error message when I
try to print, telling me my printer is offline. How can I
fix this?
Answer: To begin, basically what
I found was some new tests were done on both XP and Vista
and they revealed that XP, along with its new Service Pack
3 (beta version), has twice the performance ratings of Vista.
And that's even with Vista's beta Service Pack 1 as well.
That's pretty intense, isn't it?! Now, the full version of
Vista's SP1 is supposed to be released early next year (2008),
but the beta version was still tested and it didn't really
do much to outshine its predecessor.
So,
what exactly did the tests find? Well, for one, Vista, with
and without its SP1, performed much slower than Windows XP.
It took the Vista operating system 80 seconds to complete
the test, while it only took XP 35. Like I said before, Vista
was tested both with and without the Service Pack and that
brought up some interesting results as well. With the SP1,
Vista's performance increased less than two percent and that
was rated next to XP's improvement of 10 percent with its
SP3. Wow!
Unfortunately,
if the Vista SP1 does not improve significantly, that could
lead to another huge setback for the Vista operating system.
Several businesses and individuals are waiting for the SP1
to be released before they make the switch over to Vista.
As of right now, only 13 percent of businesses have already
started using Vista and it doesn't look like that number will
change much, unless the SP1 makes some big changes. According
to Microsoft, the service packs are "still in development"
though, so hopefully that will help Vista in the long run.
"It has always been our goal to deliver service packs
that meet the full spectrum of customer needs," a Microsoft
spokesperson said. Let's hope they do!
The
article also went over how Microsoft feels about the initial
release of Vista, which occurred almost one year ago. According
to Microsoft's corporate vice president Mike Sievert, the
launch of Vista did not go as well as they thought it would.
"Frankly, the world wasn't 100 percent ready for Windows
Vista." And that may be true, but it doesn't seem like
Microsoft really did enough to inform the users about the
new features and benefits of Vista. Windows Vista comes with
a lot of complex features and Microsoft didn't really educate
the world about them. NPD analyst Chris Swenson said that
Microsoft should have done some more advertising for Vista
when it first came out through TV, radio and print ads. The
amount of advertising done for Vista rated poorly against
what was done for Windows XP.
Maybe
we're all just used to XP, but the sales show it's much more
popular than Vista as well. During the first six months of
retail sales, Vista fell 59.7 percent below what XP sold when
it was first released. That's a huge difference! PC manufacturers
are also still selling XP computers, because the demand for
them is so high. Microsoft set a deadline of January 31, 2008
for all XP sales to end, but they have been forced to extend
that until June 2008, because they are still very popular
among users. According to Microsoft, 88 million copies of
Vista have been sold, but that still doesn't stack up to the
numbers XP has brought in.
So,
as you can see, Windows Vista is having a hard time getting
past the craze of Windows XP, but hopefully with some additional
updates and changes, it will be a top notch operating system
one day as well.
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